president abandoned platform on which he had just been elected. lincoln, they declared, must gairn tee that slavery could in the future could expand to all or part of the federal territories. and, by the way, not only those territories, currently held but also territories yet to be acquired.pp and that demand was made with an eye on eventually acquiring cuba, parts of central america and other part of the caribbean, which were expected to be turned in to slave-holding territories and slave-holding eventually states. as lincoln did not agree to do this, they said, they would very likely move to join the confederacy as well. well, lincoln about party refused to exceed these demands. sparked all-out war, these four upper south states did choose sides. they concluded that this war between a slave labor confederacy and free labor union was going to eventually and inbelie involve to a war over slavery itself. in a war like that the leader of the four slave states decided they stand with the sister slave state in the defense behalf they like to call thei